Friday, April 13, 2012

Corrupting Higher Education - Exposing the decline of secondary learning at the hands of the Left

Larry Elder - “I
don’t know any polite way of putting this — but he’s lying,” said
professor John Ellis, president of the National Association of Scholars’
California division. Ellis was reacting to a critic’s characterization
of the NAS’s damning report, “A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting
Effect of Political Activism in the University of California.”

California taxpayers spend $2.8 billion to educate the more than
230,000 students at the 10 campuses that comprise the UC system. But the
report says the UC system does not help students learn how to think,
but rather teaches them what to think. And what they “learn” is
that they are victims — whether of racism, sexism, classism or
discrimination because of sexual orientation. Liberal profs, says the
report, turn the UC campuses into “a sanctuary for a narrow ideological
segment of the spectrum of social and political ideas.”
Nationwide, left-wing professors vastly outnumber conservative professors in the humanities. It isn’t even close.

The report cites several studies, including political scientist Stanley
Rothman’s 1999 study: “Whether the question was posed in terms of
liberals versus conservatives or Democrats versus Republicans, the
margins favored the former by nearly 5-to-1 in each case, and in some
departments the results were overwhelming. For example, in English
departments the margin was 88-to-3, and in politics 81-to-2.” More